thank you both. i did the sudo install... and also did navigate to the ~/.gem/ruby ... folders and saw that it is in both now.
On Nov 17, 1:32 am, Frederick Cheung <[email protected]> wrote: > On Nov 17, 5:07 am, Alex <[email protected]> wrote: > > > This produced quite a mouthful of text. > > I'm stuck on the error messages and wondering if I messed something > > up. Any advice would be very appreciated. Thank you. > > Further to Conrad's advice, these aren't actually errors - just gem > being a little oververbose. What it is saying is that it couldn't > install gems in the system owned gem directories, because they aren't > writable by you, so instead it has installed them in the .gem folder > in your home folder. It is also warning you that because of this, just > running > rails > > won't work - you'd have to type ~/.gem/ruby/1.8/bin/rails > > instead. Other than that there's nothing wrong. > > Fred > > > dust:~ Lex$ gem install rails > > WARNING: Installing to ~/.gem since /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8 and > > /usr/bin aren't both writable. > > WARNING: You don't have /Users/Lex/.gem/ruby/1.8/bin in your PATH, > > gem executables will not run. > > Successfully installed activesupport-2.3.4 > > Successfully installed activerecord-2.3.4 > > Successfully installed rack-1.0.1 > > Successfully installed actionpack-2.3.4 > > Successfully installed actionmailer-2.3.4 > > Successfully installed activeresource-2.3.4 > > Successfully installed rails-2.3.4 > > 7 gems installed > > Installing ri documentation for activesupport-2.3.4... > > Installing ri documentation for activerecord-2.3.4... > > Installing ri documentation for rack-1.0.1... > > Installing ri documentation for actionpack-2.3.4... > > Installing ri documentation for actionmailer-2.3.4... > > Installing ri documentation for activeresource-2.3.4... > > Installing RDoc documentation for activesupport-2.3.4... > > Installing RDoc documentation for activerecord-2.3.4... > > Installing RDoc documentation for rack-1.0.1... > > Installing RDoc documentation for actionpack-2.3.4... > > Installing RDoc documentation for actionmailer-2.3.4... > > Installing RDoc documentation for activeresource-2.3.4... > > > dust:~ Lex$ echo $PATH > > /usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11/bin > > dust:~ Lex$ PATH=$PATH\://Users/Lex/.gem/ruby/1.8/bin > > dust:~ Lex$ echo $PATH > > /usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11/bin://Users/ > > Lex/.gem/ruby/1.8/bin > > > dust:~ Lex$ gem install rails > > WARNING: Installing to ~/.gem since /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8 and > > /usr/bin aren't both writable. > > /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/ > > 1.8/rubygems/installer.rb:144: warning: Insecure world writable dir // > > Users/Lex in PATH, mode 040733 > > WARNING: You don't have /Users/Lex/.gem/ruby/1.8/bin in your PATH, > > gem executables will not run. > > Successfully installed rails-2.3.4 > > 1 gem installed > > dust:~ Lex$ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
